The United States houses thousands of nuclear missiles in underground silos, with Montana being home to a good chunk of the ...

A seemingly harmless everyday accident was responsible for the destruction of an Arkansas nuclear missile silo. Here's how the incident happened.

The United States has 400 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) suspended in reinforced concrete underground missile silos, plus an additional 50 empty silos, spaced about 10 ...

The American reaction to an attack is classified, but details made public paint a harrowing picture.

There’s no getting around this basic point, that America’s intercontinental ballistic missile fleet is a Cold War relic. At the height of the Cold War, there were more than 1,000 silos dotting the ...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stepped down inside a missile silo Monday to get an up-close look at the system he says will protect the United States from an intercontinental ballistic missile ...

The United States is expected to activate a massive missile defense system within days. Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles explains the new system and the questions surrounding its use.

America's nuclear missile silo bases are located across five states—Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota—and form part of its nuclear "triad," which gives the U.S. the ability ...

To honor the terms of the treaty, the United States began disarming and removing some of its underground missiles. All 150 of the missiles in South Dakota have since been removed, as have all of ...